Melanoleuca brevipes (Short-stemmed Cavalier)

Melanoleuca brevipes – Edible

Among grasses, forest edges, roadsides, parks, squares, gardens. Early spring, late autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, elastic, matt, fibrous, fleshy, dirty blackish-brownish-grey, ash-coloured. Young gills cream, old ones grey, adnate. Stem 2—3x0.3—1.3 cm, the colour of the cap, thickened in the lower part. Flesh thick, soft, greyish-brownish, with a woody smell, not bitter in taste.

Characteristic features: fruiting bodies dirty brownish ash-coloured, flesh not bitter.

Grows in small groups in forests, parks, squares, gardens, more in open places. Edible, common, especially on grassy roadsides, in parks, even in squares, along hedges and fences.